Posts tagged “Citibank”
Depends on the Definition of Change
Josh Marshall links to this WaPo story and entitles it “Change”: The new policy — issued with little fanfare this fall by the White House ethics counsel — may turn out to be the most far-reaching lobbying rule change so far from President Obama, who also has sought to restrict the ability of lobbyists to [...]
The Ineffable Hand Of The Free Market
Someone will have to explain this to me, since — despite that Ph. D. in Finance — I’m not enough of an economist to figure it out for myself. Everyone knows that a business model inspired by the maxim “you can screw all of your customers all of the time” is not viable in the [...]
My Selected Collected Thoughts On The Whole GM Thing
(1) Why all the fuss about the unequal treatment of GM CEO Rick Wagoner and, say, Vikram Pandit of Shittygroup? Didn’t we always know that all CEOs are equal but some CEOs are more equal than others? Which pigs was George Orwell writing about if not the proverbial capitalist pigs? (2) The thoroughly inestimable Charles [...]